| Gordon, Thomas F. | | Thomas Gordon conducts research on argumentation technology in the fields of
"artificial intelligence and law" and "computational models of argument". He
heads a research group on argumentation technology at the Fraunhofer Institute
for Open Communications Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin and holds an honorary
professorship for argumentation technology at the Institute of Computer
Science of the University of Potsdam. The goal of this research is to provide
software tools for governance tasks in the policy life cycle: agenda setting,
analysis, policy development and legislation, implementation (including
administrative rulemaking and electronic service delivery), and
monitoring. Example types of applications include:
• systems for constructing ("inventing"), structuring, evaluating and
visualizing arguments
• rule-based systems for managing and applying legislation and regulations
• groupware systems for supporting online dispute resolution and deliberative
democracy
• regulatory compliance systems, for helping businesses to meet their legal
obligations at minimal cost
• systems for helping citizens apply for governmental benefits and services
• policy modeling and legislative support systems for drafting and analyzing
policies, laws and regulations
• document assembly systems for supporting the drafting of legal documents | |